The multi-billion dollar vitamin and supplement industries are largely unregulated, in part because of the endorsement of one of the greatest scientists in American history, Linus Pauling. But evidence of their value is thin, and many suspect they can cause more harm than good.

It really is true that pain is ‘all in your head’. That understanding is part of a new wave of research into why we fell physical and mental hurts and how to mediate them. It could be that being mindful and trying to characterize where the pain is or isn’t allows us to compartmentalize, and thus reduce the impact.

For some people, learning new words activates the same machinery in the brain as sex, drugs and possibly fatty and sugary foods. We get a dopamine hit from ‘preferred’ activities – and this mechanism might help explain how we developed language in the first place.

A critic of biotech has pointedly identified the number of companies a researcher has founded to underscore what he claims is the dangerous intersection of capitalism and science. But it’s naive to believe that because someone operates on the cutting edge of any discipline that he or she should also ignore the ways science is funded.

While any tobacco is harmful if smoked, there’s a kind of tobacco that’s being put to positive use—namely, the use of the plant to produce antibodies that make up the drug ZMapp for treating Ebola virus–and it’s GMO tobacco.

The failures of statewide GMO labeling initiatives and the possibility that the courts will throw out the Vermont mandatory law has prompted a rethinking of the possibility of a federal voluntary labeling bill.

A UK House of Commons report lashed out at anti-GMO advocacy groups for misapplying the ‘precautionary principle’ to the GM debate and called on the European Union to drastically revise GM regulations to allow for more innovation.

In 2014, China rejected imports of alfalfa from the US that contained trace amounts of GE material. Activists reacted with thinly veiled glee, maintaining this confirmed their worst fears, that GM crops would “contaminate” American agriculture. What’s the real story and the reason behind the embargo?

Can biotechnology overcome the stigma manufactured by activists to provide solutions for a sustainable seafood movement? Is the sustainability movement ready to accept genetic modification as a useful technology?

In the past couple of weeks, scientists have reported on two genetic changes that make brains bigger and may help explain why we are so different from chimpanzees. Only one of them is a gene, and it may be that most of the explanations of chimp-human differences lie elsewhere in DNA.

A consortium of organic companies under the banner of Only Organic and led by the founder of Stonyfield Farm hired an ad company to produce a video demonizing conventional agriculture, including GMOs. It’s ugly.

Australian researcher whose study alleging GMO feed caused inflammation in pigs was widely discredited now claims more than 80% of approved GM foods have not been 'properly' evaluated for safety. read more

Scientists and science journalists call OCA--the organization funding the attack on university biotechnology researchers, as a leading promoter of junk science and misinformation about food and nutrition.